Dr. Miroslava (Mira) Scholten is an Associate Professor of EU law and a member of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (Renforce). She teaches bachelor and master courses and gives occassionally guest lectures on different aspects of EU (institutional) law and politics.

In her research, she focuses on EU institutional and comparative constitutional and administrative law, including EU agencies, accountability and the new trend of enhancing EU direct enforcement power.

Mira received a prestigious Veni grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2016 to execute research project 'Shared enforcement but separated controls in the EU - how to make it work for democracy and the rule of law?' Together with Prof. Dr. Michiel Luchtman, she coordinates the Renforce project on accountability of EU law enforcement entities, in which academics and practitioners of different nationalities cooperate. Mira is also a co-promoter in two PhD projects and is a member of the scientific board of Osservatorio AIR, an Italian research-policy centre funded by Italian national independent agencies.

Presentation of the book 'Law Enforcement By EU Authorities', European Parliament, Brussels

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Curriculum vitae

Dr. Miroslava (Mira) Scholten is an Associate Professor of EU law and a member of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe. She teaches bachelor and master courses and gives occassionally guest lectures on EU (institutional) law and politics. Her research topics include EU agencies, legitimacy, accountability, regulation and enforcement in the EU. Her PhD dissertation on the political accountability of EU agencies has been published by Brill (http://www.brill.com/products/book/political-accountability-eu-and-us-independent-regulatory-agencies ) and her first academic article on accountability and independence of regulatory agencies in the EU and US (http://www.uitgeverijparis.nl/reader/5036/4550 ) was awarded 2012 Europe Award by the Montesquieu Institute.

Before her current position, she worked as a postdoc at Universiteit Utrecht, as a PhD researcher at Maastricht University, and as a civil servant at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Russia. She has done a number of internships: at the City Administration of Saint-Petersburg, at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg and at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague.

She holds a 'specialist degree' in International Relations from the North-West Academy of Public Administration in Saint-Petersburg (2005, with distinction), MSc in International and European Relations and Management from Amsterdam School of International Relations, the University of Amsterdam (2006, with distinction) and LLM in International and European Law from Amsterdam Law School, the University of Amsterdam (2008). Also, she participated in the ‘EU studies’ programme organised by the Aarhus Business School (September - December 2003) sponsored by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and took the summer course in American Law (2009) offered by the Amsterdam-Leyden-Columbia summer school.

Awards and grants

2016 Veni grant for the research project 'Shared enforcement but separated controls in the EU: how to make it work for democracy and the rule of law?' (by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO))

2012 Europe Award for the best scientific article (by the Montesquieu Institute)

2009 Hans Smit Award for the best participant in the Columbia summer program on American Law

Scholten M., Luchtman M. and Schmidt E., The proliferation of EU enforcement authorities: a new development in law enforcement in the EU, in M. Scholten and M. Luchtman (eds), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities. Implications for Political and Judicial Accountability (Edward Elgar).

Scholten M., Magetti M. and Versluis E., Political and judicial accountability in shared enforcement in the EU, in M. Scholten and M. Luchtman (eds), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities. Implications for Political and Judicial Accountability (Edward Elgar).

Scholten, M. Book Review: Market Integration through ‘Network Governance’: The Role of European Agencies and Network of Regulators, by Marco Zinzani, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 14 (2), 208-211.

In 2016-2018, Mira participated in two projects funded by the EU Commission (hercule scheme), more details below.

She has been co-promotor of:

Marloes van Rijsbergen (2013-2017): legitimacy and effectiveness of soft law (EU agencies, the case study on ESMA), together with Prof. Linda Senden and Prof. Annetje Ottow;

Argyro Karagianni (2016-2020): supervision of financial markets and protecting fundamental rights in a transnational law enforcement sphere (the cases of ECB and ESMA), together Prof. Michiel Luchtman and Prof. Rob Widdershoven. The project is part of the vidi research project of Prof. Michiel Luchtman;

Completed projects

Exchange of information with EU and national enforcement authorities: Improving OLAF's legislative framework through a comparison with other EU authorities02.01.2017to28.02.2018

General project description

The project aims to analyse the OLAF’s legislative framework for the exchange of information in the pre-investigative and investigative phase; to identify legal obstacles to realise OLAF’s mandate; and to elaborate possible solutions. It makes a comparison with other EU bodies with comparable tasks (European Competition Network/ECN, the European Central Bank/ECB, and the European Securities and Markets Authority/ESMA). By analysing and comparing the interaction between EU law and national law for these authorities in six Member States (the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Italy, Hungary, and Luxembourg), it will answer the question of whether there is a need to recalibrate the OLAF legislative framework, and it will define various models for that purpose.

Investigatory powers and procedural safeguards: Improving OLAF’s legislative framework through a comparison with other EU law enforcement authorities08.03.2016to31.03.2017

General project description

This project aims to analyse and improve OLAF’s legislative framework for the gathering of information and evidence (investigative stage). It makes a comparison with other EU bodies with comparable tasks (European Competition Network/ECN, the European Central Bank/ECB, and the European Securities and Markets Authority/ESMA). By analysing and comparing the interaction between EU law and national law in six Member States (the Netherlands, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Poland), it will answer the question of whether there is a need to recalibrate the OLAF legislative framework, including the incorporation of procedural safeguards.

She is a member of an ‘advisory board’ for a research project ‘the Role of Administrative Networks in European Union Implementation’ (managed by Prof. Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen and prof. Ellen Mastenbroek), funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research in Social Sciences (2017-2021). The research project aims to analyze the establishment, functioning, interaction and impact of European Administrative Networks with tasks in the realm of the implementation and enforcement of EU policies.

She has been included on the list of legal experts of D-G for Parliamentary Research Services, European Parliament, for the independent external research requests.

She reviews submissions to scientific journals in the field of public administration, political science and law.